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Ragi rava idli Ragi adai Recipe Cusine : Indian Prep Time : 15 Minutes Cook time : 3 Minute per dosa Serves : 6-7 dosa Author : Jeyashri Recipe Category : Lunch | Dinner Description : Ragi rava dosa, crispy rava dosa recipe with ragi flour, rava and rice flour, apt for breakfast and dinner Ragi flour 1/4 cup Rava | semolina | sooji 1/4 cup Rice flour 1/4 cup Onion 1 Curd 2 tblsp Oil 3 tsp + as needed for making dosa Whole black Pepper 1/2 tsp Cumin seeds 1 tsp Mustard seeds 1/2 tsp Green chili 1 Curry leaves few Ginger a small piece Salt as needed Water as needed Asafoetida a small pinch...

 Preparation Time : 5  mins | Cooking Time : 20 Mins | Makes: 4 -5 idlis    Ragi flour   1/4 cup    Rava| sooji   1/4 cup    Yogurt  1/4 cup    Eno salt  1/2 tsp    Oil  3 tsp    Mustard seeds  1/4 tsp    Channa dal  1/4 tsp    Urad dal  1/4 tsp    Ginger (grated)  1/2 tsp    Salt  as needed    Lemon juice  1 tsp    Coriander leaves + curry leaves  few    Green chili  1                         Video of how to make ragi rava idli...

Roasted bell pepper pasta is an easy pasta recipe, which doesn’t involve the use of tomato. It serves as an easy weekday dinner. Kids will also love this and you can always make it for them when they are back from school. The taste of the roasted bell pepper makes the pasta more yummy. Try this roasted bell pepper pasta for dinner tonight. Will be back to millet Mondays from next week....

Suzhiyan Recipe| Seeyam- susiyan – Poornam Boorelu in Telugu Diwali recipes – Traditional Suzhiyan recipe with step-step-pictures. Suzhiyan|Inippu seeyam, is generally made during Deepavali in most of the houses in Tamilnadu. Adirasam and seeyam is made early in the morning. We always get it from our neighbour aunty along with kurunai vadai. Amma had never made suzhiyan at home. So I have also never tried it at home. since few readers asked for the recipe of suzhiyan, I thought I will post it....

Baked and Tawa method Tandoori Gobi is a very easy starter recipe which i recently saw in TV show, but i have never tasted this Tandoori Gobi. Last weekend, i ordered this easy starter recipe in a restaurant . Though we all liked the taste it was very spicy. On the way back, i bought one pack of cauliflower to try this at home following the recipe. I tweaked the recipe slightly, according to my preference....

Thakkali Kuzhambu | thakkali kurma – South Indian tomato gravy recipe – with detailed step by step pictures. Thakkali kuzhmabu is in my to do list for a long time. Though I have heard about this and tasted in friends houses during my school days, never tried it on my own. There are many variations to this recipe. People make it to suit their family’s preference and taste. This tastes similar to kurma and personally love this with dosai....

Recipe Cusine : Indian Prep Time : 10 Minutes Cook time : 20 Minutes Serves : 1 and 1/4 cup Author : Jeyashri Recipe Category : Lunch | Dinner Description : Thengai podi is a simple recipe, quite popular in Tamil brahmin houses, made with roasted urad dal, red chili and coconut as main ingredients.    Coconut 1 cup       Urad dal 1/4 cup    Red chilli 7-8    Salt as needed    Asafoetida a pinch   Oil 2 tsp                      Video of how to make thengai podi...

Preparation Time : 15 mins | Cooking Time : 3-4 Min per uttapam | Serves: 3 Dosa batter 1 cup Onion 1 Carrot 3 tblsp (grated) Capsicum 3 tblsp (chopped into cubes) Tomato 1/2 Salt as needed Red chili powder 1/2 tsp Oil to make the uttapams. Method: Keep the onions, carrot, capsicum and tomato in a bowl or plate. Take out the seeds of the tomato and then chop it and add to the mixture....

Wheat flour appam recipe- Easy Instant wheat appam recipe – with full video and step by step pictures. Godhumai appam recipe for Karthigai deepam, Janmashtami and Ganesh chaturthi. Appam is a sweet dish made with wheat flour. Normally this is made during Ganesh Chaturthi |Vinayagar Chaturthi., Janmashtami and Karthigai Deepam. Also, this can be made for Karthigai deepam too. Here is the recipe for sweet appam with whole wheat flour and jaggery....

Preparation Time : 10 mins | Cooking Time : 25 Mins | Serves: 3-4 Brinjal | eggplant 3 (small) Sambar podi 2 and 1/2 tsp Turmeric powder 1/4 tsp Ulundu appalam| Urad dal papad 3 Tamarind gooseberry sized Toor dal 1/4 cup Coconut 2 tblsp Asafoetida 2 pinches Oil 1 tblsp Mustard seeds 1/4 tsp Curry leaves few Salt as needed Method: Soak the tamarind in hot water for 10 minutes....

Avial | aviyal recipe | South Indian recipes – Avial | Aviyal | அவியல்  in Tamil is a traditional Tamil brahmin recipe. Aviyal | avial recipe with full video. Aviyal recipe updated with Video. I learned this from my mom who is an expert in making avial. Aviyal is served with Adai, Coconut rice, and Puliyodarai. We make this compulsorily on festivals like kannu pongal and aadi perukku . I have posted the recipe of Kerala style Avial too....

Preparation Time : 15 mins | Cooking Time : 3 mins per roti | Makes: 8 theplas Whole wheat flour 1 and 1/4 cup Beetroot grated 1/2 cup Methi leaves 3/4 cup Sesame seeds 2 tblsp Green chili 2 Garlic 2 cloves Cumin powder 1 tsp Salt as needed Turmeric powder 1/4 tsp Cooked rice 2 tblsp (optional) Oil 1 tblsp + oil for cooking the theplas Method: Grind the green chili and the garlic....

Butter beans potato masala | Butter beans potato pirattal – Easy and tasty Chettinad style urulai pirattal recipe During my recent trip to India, I got a kg of butterbeans from there. Now it is winter season and we get this in local markets. We don’t get this in Hong Kong. I have fond memories of this vegetable, e used to get this in my hometown Madurai. Amma used to add in pulao and make butter beans kurma too....

Yellow moong dal | masoor dal 1/4 cup Carrot 1 Onion 1 Tomato 1 Garlic 4 pods(optional) Green chilli 1-2 Oil |Ghee 1/2 tblsp Salt to taste Lemon juice 2 tsp Mustard seeds 1/4 tsp Curry leaves and coriander leaves few Soak the dal for 10 minutes. Chop thecarrots, finely chop the onion, tomato and peel the skin of the garlic. Add this to the soaked dal and add the turmeric powder....

Chow chow kootu recipe | Easy chow chow kootu without moong dal. Recipe with step-by-step pictures. This style of Chow chow kootu recipe, is a very popular kootu served in Tamil brahmin weddings and functions. Usually, we make kootu by adding moong dal or toor dal to this. We are adding only chana dal to this kootu, just to give a nice creamy texture and taste. This is served as an accompaniment like an aviyal....

This 10th week of Cooking for guests recipes comes with a simple and yet a super hit menu. I have made this menu for a group of 5 people who visited us few weeks back. It was a totally a fantastic time and we didn’t plan for the meet before. It was just a casual talk in the morning and we all met at our place in the evening. So i don’t have much veggies at home and don’t have much time to go the shop and buy things too....

Coriander and lemon Vegetable soup recently tasted during my trip to Hyderabad and tasted very nice. The cold weather there and this piping hot coriander and the lemon-flavored soup were totally out of the world. I just gave this soup a try yesterday and it tasted almost the same. The recipe of this soup is very simple with easily available ingredients at home. This is a no-onion no garlic version of lemon coriander soup....

Date truffles with video Date truffles is a simple no cook recipe made using 3 main ingredients, dates,cocoa powder and nuts. It is more similar to our Indian dry fruits ladoo. Valentines day is even more special to us as it is our son Varun’s birthday. This year he is celebrating his 12th birthday. When i was thinking of what to post for today,this idea of dates truffles came to my mind....

Godhumai halwa recipe – Easy godhumai halwa with wheat flour – Tirunelveli halwa recipe with full video and step by step pictures. After trying the Kasi halwa and Karachi halwa I thought I will try Godhumai halwa | wheat halwa at home. I tried the halwa with wheat flour and it turned out pretty awesome. I just jumped out of joy and it tasted exactly like the Tirunelveli halwa which we get in shops....

Homemade rice flour recipe , Rice flour made at home perfect for making Murukku, seedai, Thattai, Kozhukattai, adirasam and nombu adai. Arisi maavu | homemade rice flour is generally made for making Kozhukattais. Some people make rice flour at home for making all bakshanams like murukku and thattai. But I always use store-bought rice flour or idiyappam flour for making bakshanams and kozhukattai. During festival time, many readers ask me, Can we do seedai or kozhukattai with store-bought rice flour....